Development of a GIS-based decision support system for assessing land use status

IntroductionAgriculturallandusepatternsandtheirchangesaretightlyrelatedwithagriculturepolicyandfoodsecurityissuesundergrowingfooddemand,assess mentofglobalclimatechangeimpactsonagricul ture,environmentalissuesduetotheintensificationofagriculturallandusessuchaswaterpollution,soildegradation,andrecentlywaterscarcityissues.Soasustainableandholisticplanningandmanage mentoflandresourcesshouldcombineallthesere latedinformationwithefficienttoolsforassessmentandevaluationinordertopermitbroad ,interact…     

Integrated approach of using remote sensing and GIS to study watershed prioritization and productivity

Soil data obtained from soil resource inventory, land and climate were derived from the remote sensing satellite data (Landsat TM, bands 1 to 7) and were integrated in GIS environment to obtain the soil erosion loss using USLE model for the watershed area. The priorities of different sub-watershed areas for soil conservation measures were identified. Land productivity index was also used as a measure for land evaluation. Different soil and land attribute maps were generated in GIS, and R,K,LS,C and P factor maps were derived. By integrating these soil erosion map was generated. The mapping units, found not suitable for agriculture production, were delineated and mapped as non-arable land. The area suitable for agricultural production was carved out for imparting the productivity analysis; the land suitable for raising agricultural crops was delineated into different mapping units as productivity ratings good, fair, moderate and poor. The analysis performed using remote sensing and GIS helped to generate the attribute maps with more accuracy and the ability of integrating these in GIS environment provided the ease to get the required kind of analysis. Conventional methods of land evaluation procedures in terms of either soil erosion or productivity are found not comparable with the out put generated by using remote sensing and GIS as the limitations in generating the attribute maps and their integration. The results obtained in this case study show the use of different kinds of data derived from different sources in land evaluation appraisals.     

Land suitability analysis for cereal production in Himachal Pradesh (India) using Geographical Information System

Land suitability analysis is prerequisite for sustainable agriculture and it plays a pivotal role in the niche based agricultural planning in mountain regions. In this paper different parameters viz. climatic (precipitation and temperature), topographic (elevation), soil type and land cover/land use have been used in order to perform land suitability evaluation for cereals food-grain crops in Himachal Pradesh using Geographic Information System (GIS). The suitability analysis was performed by digital processing of geo-referenced data (elevation, climate, soil and landcover) and calculating potential production areas by combining different types of geographical data through decision rules framed for each crop in ArcView spatial analyst. Suitable areas have been delineated for cereal crops in the form of land suitability maps. In comparison to the actual area under cereal crops, the possibility of further expansion under each cereal crop was determined. These discriminated areas appear suitable for growing these crops and can be harnessed efficiently for achieving long term sustainability and food security.     

煤矿关闭前后土地利用RS与GIS动态监测

采用遥感和GIS技术来监测矿区土地利用动态情况,对于矿区土地资源合理利用、科学管理和综合治理具有重要的意义。本文从数据的获取、遥感影像处理、年度变化信息提取、土地利用转移矩阵的建立等过程来分析土地利用RS与GIS动态监测过程。研究结果表明煤矿关闭前土地利用类型之间相互转换明显,呈现出建设用地和水域面积增加的趋势;关闭后水域面积趋于稳定,而农用地增加,土地利用集约化水平得到提高。总体来说矿区土地利用粗放,没有一个合理的土地利用结构方向,缺乏一个土地利用总体规划,但通过长期复垦整治,在一定程度上缓解了当地人地矛盾。     

Carbon storage in soils of Southeastern Nigeria under different management practices

Background  

Changes in agricultural practices-notably changes in crop varieties, application of fertilizer and manure, rotation and tillage practices-influence how much and at what rate carbon is stored in, or released from, soils. Quantification of the impacts of land use on carbon stocks in sub-Saharan Africa is challenging because of the spatial heterogeneity of soil, climate, management conditions, and due to the lack of data on soil carbon pools of most common agroecosystems. This paper provides data on soil carbon stocks that were collected at 10 sites in southeastern Nigeria to characterize the impact of soil management practices.     

Maize drought disaster risk assessment of China based on EPIC model

Abstract

Digital Agriculture is one of the important applications of Digital Earth. As the global climate changes and food security becomes an increasingly important issue, agriculture drought comes to the focus of attention. China is a typical monsoon climate country as well as an agricultural country with the world's largest population. The East Asian monsoon has had a tremendous impact upon agricultural production. Therefore, a maize drought disaster risk assessment, in line with the requirements of sustainable development of agriculture, is important for ensuring drought disaster reduction and food security. Meteorology, soil, land use, and agro-meteorological observation information of the research area were collected, and based on the concept framework of ‘hazard-inducing factors assessment (hazard)-vulnerability assessment of hazard-affected body (vulnerability curve)-risk assessment (risk),’ importing crop model EPIC (Erosion-Productivity Impact Calculator), using crop model simulation and digital mapping techniques, quantitative assessment of spatio-temporal distribution of maize drought in China was done. The results showed that: in terms of 2, 5, 10, and 20 year return periods, the overall maize drought risk decreased gradually from northwest to southeast in the maize planting areas. With the 20 year return period, high risk value regions (drought loss rate ≥0.5) concentrate in the irrigated maize region of Northwest china, ecotone between agriculture and animal husbandry in Northern China, Hetao Irrigation Area, and north-central area of North China Plain, accounting for 6.41% of the total maize area. These results can provide a scientific basis for the government's decision-making in risk management and drought disaster prevention in China.     

LAND USE SCANNER: An integrated GIS based model for long term projections of land use in urban and rural areas

This paper describes the structure of the LAND USE SCANNER model, a GIS based model developed to generate spatial forecasts for various types of land use for a large number of grids. The model basically allocates land according to bid prices for various types of land use. The possibility of government intervention in land use is taken into account among others by adding aggregate constraints. The model includes all relevant land use types such as residential, industrial, agricultural, natural areas and water. The model is driven by sectoral models providing forecasts of aggregate land use in various land use categories. An application of the first version of the model is given for the Netherlands with some 200,000 grid cells. Further developments and refinements of the model are planned for the near future. Received: 18 February 1998/Accepted: 29 September 1998     

Land use indicators of a watershed in arid region, western Rajasthan using Remote Sensing and GIS

The vegetation dynamics and land use/land cover types of Birantiya Kalan watershed located in the arid tracts of western Rajasthan have been characterized and evaluated using Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System (GIS). The watershed under study falls in the transitional plain of Luni Basin and is characterized by Aravali ranges in the eastern half and vast alluvial plains in the west. The land use/land cover types, as identified are cropland, fallow, forest, land with scrub, land without scrub, sandy area and the water body. Land with scrub occupied maximum area (39% area of the watershed) in 1996 in place of crop land which was dominant (43% of total area) in the year 1988. During eight years period, seasonal fallow land increased significantly and the areal extent of water body decreased to almost half. Vegetation vigour types have been classified into very poor, poor. moderate, good and very good categories. Moderate vigour type reduced from 62 to 27% and poor type increased from 34 to 68% during the period 1988 to 1996. Other vegetation vigour types have not shown any significant changes. To quantify the changes over the years in both vegetation and land use/land cover, weightages have been given to each type and composite values of both vegetation vigour and land use types for 1996 and 1988 have been calculated. It has been observed that the ratio for vegetation vigour has been found to be 0.85 showing that the overall vegetation have not improved after the treatment. The ratio for land use is found to be 1.01, which indicates negligible change in land use.     

Incorporating GIS data into an agent-based model to support planning policy making for the development of creative industries

This paper presents an extension to the agent-based model “Creative Industries Development–Urban Spatial Structure Transformation” by incorporating GIS data. Three agent classes, creative firms, creative workers and urban government, are considered in the model, and the spatial environment represents a set of GIS data layers (i.e. road network, key housing areas, land use). With the goal to facilitate urban policy makers to draw up policies locally and optimise the land use assignment in order to support the development of creative industries, the improved model exhibited its capacity to assist the policy makers conducting experiments and simulating different policy scenarios to see the corresponding dynamics of the spatial distributions of creative firms and creative workers across time within a city/district. The spatiotemporal graphs and maps record the simulation results and can be used as a reference by the policy makers to adjust land use plans adaptively at different stages of the creative industries’ development process.     

基于FLUS模型的土地利用变化模拟与预测方法研究

模拟和预测土地利用演变过程是规划者把握城市扩张趋势,从而确定更合理的城市用地布局的重要途径之一,对指导国土空间规划具有重要意义.研究基于CA原理改进的FLUS模型,通过耦合GeoSOS-FLUS及ArcGIS软件,从2011年土地利用数据中获取元胞转换概率,模拟了2018年土地利用变化情况.模拟精度较高,证明选取的模拟...     

农业土地资源动态评价模型研究

以山东省东营市为例,对农业土地资源动态评价体系建立方法进行了探讨。研究结果表明,将“变权”的动态加权法〔1〕作为土地资源评价模型,并与地理信息系统技术相结合,是对农业土地资源进行动态评价的有效途径。     

基于GIS的岳阳县土地利用变化研究

本文利用遥感和GIS技术,分析了岳阳县1993年～2002年土地利用变化及其空间分异特征。研究表明,9年间岳阳县农用地、水域呈减少趋势,建设用地、林地呈增加趋势,其中农用地的减少和林地的增加十分显著;主要转移方向包括农用地向建设用地、林地转移,水域向林地转移等;各类土地利用变化在空间上呈现明显的区域分异;城市化的迅速发展,旅游业的繁荣以及人类生态意识的提高是研究时段内土地利用变化的主要影响因子。     

基于遥感影像的土地动态变化监测

土地利用/覆盖变化是目前研究全球及区域环境的一个重要领域,在城镇化加速的今天,城镇的土地利用格局也发生了飞速的变化。本文通过其一研究区内的Landsat TM遥感影像进行处理,获取了2007~2016年10个时相土地利用/覆盖信息,通过不同的预测模型对监测到的数据进行处理及比较,根据相应的最优预测方法预测了2017~2019年南昌市各土地类型的数据,由此研究并探讨了南昌市土地利用/覆盖的时空格局变化。     

Geostatistical and visualization analysis of crop suitability for diversification in sub-mountain area of Punjab,North-West India

This study presents a Geographic Information System (GIS)-based geostatistical and visualization analysis of crop suitability in two blocks of sub-mountain area of Punjab under diversification programme. It combines the limitation approach of land capability classification, productivity potential evaluation procedure and crop suitability evaluation framework of FAO. Two blocks from the sub mountain Siwalik region of Punjab viz., Mahalpur and Garhshankar were selected. This study evaluates the capabilities of the study area for traditional crops like wheat, paddy and maize, and recently introduced crops like sugarcane, sunflower, pea, rapeseed-mustard, potatoes and kinnow for agricultural diversification. The suitability of the crops has been worked out at the village level. About 35–40 per cent of total area mostly in Siwallik hills is not fit for growing any type of crop. Sandy texture, uneven topography, moderately steep slopes and excessive drainage are responsible for unsuitability of this area. The GIS based suitability analysis for traditional crops as well as for new crops, under diversification of agriculture has been undertaken. The geostatistical analysis points towards suitability of relatively large areas for new crops like sunflower, potato, pea (green) and sugarcane. Forty three and 14 per cent of total area has been found highly suitable and suitable respectively for growing green pea - a cash crop. Thirty three per cent of total area is suitable for growing kinnow fruit. The success of diversification programme is subject to logical government policy in terms of providing cold storage, food processing facility and marketing infrastructure.     

基于阜新市的土壤多样性与土地利用类型关联性分析

以阜新市为研究对象,将土地利用动态演变的模拟和预测以及关联分析测度方法应用于土壤多样性和土地利用类型关联性分析的研究中。选取1985—2015年间8个时期的遥感影像进行土地利用分类,并基于土壤矢量数据,对阜新市土壤和土地利用的多样性进行初步分析和定量化研究,探究了土壤与土地利用之间的关联性。研究结果表明:对阜新市土壤多样性指数影响因子的关联度从大到小依次是城镇、农用地、林地、水域、其他,关联度值分别为0.850 6、0.747 7、0.779 5、0.803 3、0.641 9,选取城镇、农用地、林地和水域这4个因子作为多元线性回归模型中的自变量参数,对土壤多样性指数进行预测,得到相关系数R=0.990,因此,4个因子对土壤多样性指数影响具有较强的关联性。由此可见,大规模土地利用变化是引起土壤多样性变化的一个首要驱动因子。     

Land use alterations and its possible impact on premonsoon climatic variables

Changes in land surface characteristics have become a matter of great concern in the recent years. It is particularly important when the mesoscale phenomena control the climatic variables of a region. Gangetic West Bengal with its neighbourhood is such a region where during premonsoon season, mesoscale phenomena, i.e., sea breeze circulation and severe convective development, control the local climate of the season. It is also reported that a drastic changes in land use pattern has taken place in recent period over the region, which might affect the local climate, resulting in severe water crisis over the semi-arid part of the region. A detailed study has been undertaken to investigate the changes in land use pattern through satellite data over the area and its possible impact on the local climate through numerical modeling. Satellite (IRS-IC and Landsat 4 and 5) data shows a sharp change in dynamic vegetation during this period, which is due to, increased agricultural practices in the recent years. Mesoscale model indicates that agricultural practices hinder the development of sea breezes over the coastal and inland places, causing less incursion of moisture towards inland. This may be associated with less number of convective developments over the coastal and neighbouring places.     

城市化的农用地评价比较研究——以南京市江宁、六合区为例

我国城市化步入快速发展时期,城市用地的迅速增长,使得大量的农用地正在快速转变为非农业用地。本文以GIS技术为核心,在快速城市化的背景下,综合考虑农用地的经济价值和社会价值影响因素,建立评价模型,通过对南京市江宁区和六合区为例进行实证比较研究,探索农用地评价的方法和规律,为农用地的征用、整理、分等、定级和估价提供一定科学依据。     

Measuring land-use and land-cover change using the U.S. department of agriculture’s cropland data layer: Cautions and recommendations

Monitoring agricultural land is important for understanding and managing food production, environmental conservation efforts, and climate change. The United States Department of Agriculture's Cropland Data Layer (CDL), an annual satellite imagery-derived land cover map, has been increasingly used for this application since complete coverage of the conterminous United States became available in 2008. However, the CDL is designed and produced with the intent of mapping annual land cover rather than tracking changes over time, and as a result certain precautions are needed in multi-year change analyses to minimize error and misapplication. We highlight scenarios that require special considerations, suggest solutions to key challenges, and propose a set of recommended good practices and general guidelines for CDL-based land change estimation. We also characterize a problematic issue of crop area underestimation bias within the CDL that needs to be accounted for and corrected when calculating changes to crop and cropland areas. When used appropriately and in conjunction with related information, the CDL is a valuable and effective tool for detecting diverse trends in agriculture. By explicitly discussing the methods and techniques for post-classification measurement of land-cover and land-use change using the CDL, we aim to further stimulate the discourse and continued development of suitable methodologies. Recommendations generated here are intended specifically for the CDL but may be broadly applicable to additional remotely-sensed land cover datasets including the National Land Cover Database (NLCD), Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)-based land cover products, and other regional, national, and global land cover classification maps.